Smoking or Non in Restaurants?

Question

Can anyone give me a clear picture as to why those who are against smoking...have to press the issue for other people and other businesses?

Not only do I see people who try and ban smoking in restaurants...for their own personal reasons...what about that business owners reason for having it? I know I am gonna hear alot of...cause it can kill you and those around you kind of answers...but then can I ask you to stop polluting the earth and my air with your exhaust....or stop drinking all together to get rid of drunk drivers? Or how about making all food healthy...considering obesity is massive in the US. Can I ask that of you.....Just wondering if I will actually see a real answer to this question. In case you got lost....What gives you the right to decide what a business that you are not forced to go into...to change?

Answer 1

People get full of themselves and think that their way of thinking and living is the only correct way. They then condemn others that don't do exactly as they do, and try to change it so they have to. It is ridiculous and immature. As you said, the people don't like it, they don't have to expose themselves to it, but leave others to their own vices.

Answer 2

Cause what if one guy is blowing smoke into the face of 1000 babies.

And it is not any individual that makes the laws.... it is the society as a whole.  It's worked like that for thousands of years... ever since people agreed that murder was illegal as well cause it was not best for society as a whole.

Answer 3

Because it caused DEATH to innocent people and ASSES like you don't care about anyone else because you are too self absorbed in your fantasy world

Answer 4

I've always opted for non-smoking, even when I smoked. Frankly, the air in an enclosed place where there's smoking stinks, worse in the smoking section but a fair amount in non-smoking as well. It's not so much the smell of the cigarette someone's enjoying now as the ones from two days ago, two weeks ago, two years ago, embedded in every porous surface, from carpet to upholstery to sound-reducing ceiling materials. Perfectly nice restaurants that are clean to the eye smelled like a full ashtray.

In the state where I live, smoking in restaurants and bars is illegal and has been for a couple of years now. The dire predictions about business falling off have failed to come true. A few bars, and no restaurants, have created smoking rooms with their own ventilation system, and more have created a place outside with a roof and sometimes a heat source, where smokers can legally smoke.

As a former smoker who still feels the lure every single day (and who would take them up again in a heartbeat if there were a way to protect my health from the effects), I quickly came to appreciate the difference in restaurants and bars. The lingering smell of smoke disappeared. I could smell my food. I enjoyed it more. The smokers didn't seem to mind, adapting well to smoking outside and often forming a sort of bond with one another. At businesses, they even made valuable connections the non-smokers envied.

Essentially, your right to smoke stops at the other person's nose and lungs. I've got no problem with that.

The parallel with obesity doesn't really work. You smoking can affect Joe's health, but Joe's obesity doesn't affect your health.

Answer 5

Personally i dont see that others have the right to tell anyone what to do with there  smoking. .My grandfather lived to a ripe old age and he smoked till his dyin day  and chewed.Oh by the way he was 99 and a half when he left this world.But there are those who think it is all bad.Well im like you other things are bad for you too.But seems there is more against than for these days.They just keep taking more and more freedoms away it seems.Oh and by the way i just happen to truly feel this way and my 76 year old husband died of lung cancer and i dont smoke but he did till the last 5 years and he enjoyed his life and was very happy and if they said they had a  restaurant that you could smoke in that was not divided we went if not we went else where.And our lives were great until one and a hald years ago when he passed away.

Answer 6

I say "non" to all restaurants and public buildings or events, but I really like your comment about forcing all food to be more healthy because of the extreme obesity problem.......isn't it the same public health issue!

Answer 7

Not just one person makes a law....they do what is best for everyone...

We have the right to have a clean place to eat with out inhaling toxins and cancer causing agents! Especially younger children, why would anyone want to make a kid breathe in that c**p while at dinner? People who don't smoke were smart enough to choose not to smoke therefore they shouldn't have to deal with it.

Answer 8

I work in a restaurant in PA, and we are allowed to smoke, but for how long, who knows. In NY, it is illegal. We get a lot of NY'ers that come in so that they can smoke. We do have a non-smoking section too. And we get a lot of people complaining because we are one of a few in our town that are allowed smokers.

Yes, smoking is bad, and I am a smoker. Cough cough...LOL.  But people are horrible about the smoking. And my complaint is like yours, with the drinking and driving deal. They want to raise taxes on cigerettes, but not alcohol.

We vacation in NY sometimes, and it doesn't bother me that I can't smoke in restaurants. It's part of life.

In our area, now they are banning cigs in parks. That is getting out of hand.

People just can't seem to shake the smoking ban though. If anything, smoking in our restaurant helps us more than it hurts us. Like I said, we still have complainers about the smoking, but we always will.